Month: December 2020

Is Big Data Undermining Big Data Analytics?

Big Data is what underpins the analytics of most massive companies. With data flow running into the petabytes, analytics should be having a field day, leading to insights about all kinds of things that human analysts couldn't predict. Yet somehow we're not seeing any of these groundbreaking insights. Instead, we're seeing more and more companies … Continue reading Is Big Data Undermining Big Data Analytics?

How Blockchain Technology Will Soon Revolutionise Healthcare

Blockchain technology is here, and it promises to fundamentally change a wide range of industries - including healthcare - in the coming years. In the private healthcare landscape, change could come sooner rather than later. If you’ve not heard of Bitcoin, or the blockchain framework that powers the cryptocurrency, it might be time to take … Continue reading How Blockchain Technology Will Soon Revolutionise Healthcare

Introduction to Multi-Task Learning(MTL) for Deep Learning

What is Multi-Task Learning? Multi-Task learning is a sub-field of Machine Learning that aims to solve multiple different tasks at the same time, by taking advantage of the similarities between different tasks. This can improve the learning efficiency and also act as a regularizer which we will discuss in a while. Formally, if there are … Continue reading Introduction to Multi-Task Learning(MTL) for Deep Learning